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- From: Merle Ilgenfritz <Merleiz@ids.net>
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- Subject: Wild Eyed Video Amiga Product Info Post #63
- Date: Mon, 19 Feb 1996 19:29:38 -0500
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- Wild Eyed Video Amiga Product Info Post #63 2/7/96
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- TV PAINT by Activa International
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- TVPaint is a drawing program designed by artists for
- artists. It contains all the drawing and image processing
- tools you would expect to find in a graphics program, and
- more...
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- As an artist orientated application, it comes with a
- number of features and 'details' that means the artist
- will find work a delightful experience.
-
- TVPaint works with 16 million colors and each pixel has
- 256 levels of transparency. The use of transparency in
- this way is one of the keys to TVPaint's power. It
- allows the user to place several images in separate
- layers and mix them in teal time, taking into account
- the transparency of each pixel tin the process. This
- multilayered approach is of prime importance, it
- gives the artists incredible freedom and allows then to
- 'play around' with the image in ways that were
- previously impossible and always with the highest
- possible quality of smoothing between images. At any
- time the artist can be working with up
- to three images which combine to form a single project.
-
- Not only can different images be combined, every
- aspect of the program: drawing tools (pen, airbrush...),
- drawing functions (straight lines, freehand...), and
- drawing modes (Color, Merge,
- Impress, Shade, Light...), etc. can be freely mixed
- placing more than 2100 tools at the artists fingertips.
-
- Three working images mixed in real time with the alpha
- value of each pixel giving incredible power with the
- ultimate anti-aliasing. Rotoscoping with the Personal
- Animation Recorder (PAR) from Digital Processing
- Systems, using the automatic Pilot George (Windows) or
- Arexx (Amiga).
-
- Each function can be combined with all the others: the
- drawing tools (pen, airbrush...), the drawing functions
- (continuous drawing, line, curve...), and drawing modes
- (Color, Merge, Impress, Shade Light...),all of which are
- pressure-sensitive and whose diameter, power, and
- envelope are all user-definable. By combining all the
- options you have 2100 functions that you can set
- infinitely. The ability to use pressure-sensitive
- graphics tablets. The use of pressure sensitive touch
- tablets which enable the artist to retain his skills.
- A touch tablet (Wacom for instance) is almost essential
- to get the complete power of TVPaint.
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- Several drawing tools: pen, airbrush, chalk, colour
- pencil...which are modified by the pressure variation
- and which can be set in diameter, power and aspect. An
- intuitive interface: organised menus and icons, simple
- and powerful. An intuitive and graphic control of
- complex parameters. An efficient menu to choose your own
- colors and edit your own working palette... Supports CG
- and bitmap fonts. Keyboard shortcuts for most of the
- options and functions. A second working screen to build
- your brushes, to test a special effect or to
- load another image: a useful spare screen.
-
- A reversible UNDO and REDO function. A REDO function
- to automatically re-draw the last polygon and try
- different option settings, functions, colors, without
- drawing the same thing again. Powerful image
- manipulation tools, a launch platform for your
- imagination. Functions, to modify images which
- allow you to use the full scope of your graphics
- board: Color, Stamp, Replace, Behind, Erase,
- PantoGraph, Merge, ImpresSionism, Shade, Light,
- Colorize, Tint, Grain, Smooth, Blur, Smear,
- Shift...The brush control: the part you cut on the
- screen by means of the rectangle, polygon or the
- lasso option actually becomes your brush.
-
- You can draw with it, or wrap it into a shape, or
- stretch it, magnify it, reduce it, rotate it, invert
- it... TVPaint reads and writes all major file formats
- so it can load your scanned or grabbed or 3D computed
- images to retouch them. Supported formats: Deep, ILBM,
- TGA, GIF, Jpeg , BMP, Tiff, Rendition, RGB8, SunRaster,
- SGI...
-
- TVPaint 3.0 for Amiga needs at least an accelerated Amiga
- system with co-processor and 8 megabytes of memory. It
- runs only on the Picasso II, Retina, Retina Zorro 3, and
- all EGS based graphics boards like the Rainbow 3 and
- Spectrum.
-
- Price: (Amiga) $324.99 + shipping and handling.
-
- A PC Version is available too!
- Price: (Intel) $324.99 + shipping and handling.
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- Wild Eyed Video
- 80 Grant Drive
- North Kingstown, Rhode Island
- 02852-3614
-
- (401) 294-4070
- E-Mail: Merleiz@ids.net
-
- We accept Visa & Mastercard and carry most products still
- being made for the Amiga platform as well as software and
- hardware for the PC, DEC Alpha, Mac, MIPS and SGI platforms.
-
- Orders outside of the U.S. are welcome !
-
- To be added to our bi-weekly new product info post list,
- e-mail us at the address above and give us a description
- of the system(s) you use.
-
- Please feel free to post this on your local BBS's too!
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